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Recent Advances in Environmental Magnetism and Paleomagnetism

This special issue is based on Session SE04 "Recent advances in paleo-, rock and environmental magnetism" held during the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2014 Meeting (28 July - 1 August in Sapporo, Japan). Environmental magnetism is an important application of rock magnetism to understand the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment on Earth and other planets. On the other hand, the past ambient magnetic fields have influenced environmental processes on Earth and other planets. Thus, the issue especially focuses on environmental magnetism and paleomagnetism in order to understand environments on Earth and other planets. Submissions are also presented from authors who did not attend the Session SE04 of AOGS 2014 Meeting.

The Thellier method is classical but is still regarded as the most reliable method for paleointensity determination. Recently, many types of additional protocols have been advocated to ensure reliability and m...

Nondestructive magnetic detection of tephra layers in ice cores will be an important method to identify and correlate stratigraphic horizons of ice bearing volcanic ash particles. Volcanic ash particles were ...

To examine limnological conditions in Lake Ogawara on the Pacific coast of northwestern Japan, we investigated the magnetic properties of dredged bottom sediment originally collected from the lake in the summe...

This paper reports on the rock-magnetic properties of single zircon crystals, which are essential for future work establishing the reliable paleointensity method using single zircon crystals. Zircon crystals u...

We describe the orbital-scale environmental variation around Papua New Guinea (PNG) for the last 400 ka based on the environmental magnetism. Six magnetic parameters and the δ18O record of the core MD05-2928 are ...

An improved method is proposed for measuring dynamic magnetizations of bulk volcanic rock samples induced by a pulsed-field of 0.7 T and a duration of 10 ms. The transient magnetization is measured by a sensin...

A high-resolution rock magnetic study was carried out in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 316 Hole C0008A located in the Megasplay Fault Zone of the Nankai Trough, SW offshore Japan, in orde...

Southwest Japan rotated clockwise during the late stage of the opening of the Japan Sea, although the exact timing of the rotation is controversial. A recent biostratigraphic study has revealed that the Miocen...

GEOMAGIA50.v3 for sediments is a comprehensive online database providing access to published paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and chronological data obtained from lake and marine sediments deposited over the past...

GEOMAGIA50.v3 is a comprehensive online database providing access to published paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and chronological data from a variety of materials that record Earth’s magnetic field over the past ...

Eolian dust plays an important role in the Earth’s climate system. Environmental magnetism has been widely used to trace dust variations at different spatial and temporal scales. However, the magnetic properti...

In 1972, a reconstruction experiment of a kiln had been done to reproduce an excavated kiln of the seventh century in Japan. Baked clay samples were taken from the floor surface and −20 cm level, and they have...